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University Museum--home of geology, anthropology, glass flowers, etc. Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory. New Lecture Hall--home of History 1 and other large lecture courses, the New Lecture Hall was built in 1905, but, left unnamed, it has ever since retained its earliest appellation...
...fear very much that if certain modern Americans," and the President's voice began to rasp for the first time, "who protest loudly their devotion to American ideals, were suddenly to be given a comprehensive view of the earliest American colonists and their methods of life and government, they would promptly label them socialists. . . . We know, however, that although this school persisted . . . during the first three national Administrations it was eliminated, for many years at least, under the leadership of President Thomas Jefferson and his successors. His was the first great battle for the preservation of democracy...
George Gershwin had just been born when his parents moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan's overcrowded Lower East Side. The earliest sounds young Gershwin heard were the clank of dishes in his father's restaurant, the clatter of the Second Avenue El, the confusion and bustle of the ghetto. At 10, the aggressive, wild-haired little boy was the best rollerskater in the block. Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought...
...least 30 years the name of Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has made news in London and enraged conservative Britons (TIME, March 25, 1935 et ante). Last week after nearly two years of comparative obscurity, the head fell off one of his earliest statues and slapped Sculptor Epstein right into the headlines again...
Roared Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago, editor of A.M.A. publications and spokesman for medical orthodoxy: "The tradition of medicine since the earliest times has been one of service-a service dependent for its success in the curing of disease on mutual responsibility between the doctor and his patient. The American Medical Association has established principles which must govern this relationship between doctor and patient. The purpose of these principles is to maintain for the public the highest possible quality of medical service. As long as human beings are themselves not standardized it will not be possible to provide them with...